Show m e S 5 f t ILIA S 5 5 i 5 M I W TORI Je sn 27 son eon Burne in That Man and nd C t If gi ivea s relatively view yiew of that 1 men do to we ISbn This new naw play iy is not a funny farce as u it ita a mc seems to indicate but a i tender sentiment and deep Mrs Burnett has made it with then ien n Ink 1 as well as a sets eons eora and pott from her novel In InC C nn the l Le e Wllie Claim The misfortune which John Baird brings lo to Margery is shown in we tilt p Then the uc ac thin seventeen years and we get el acquainted WRIt daughter Felicity who on n her wedding day dayto to lay her flowers on or her moth mothers ers ens grave and pray there to be ks kept pt pure A incident te hi this with the girl unaware ef of the pitiful perti 1 of what whitt she and her re j father saved fron suicide in mu Wittingly by the Innocent creature Of course you seen Maud Feel 5 j j if not net on the agat then in portrait portraiture i ure as her hundreds of photographs have bees been multiplied into millions of prints the world over Maude faude is a as pretty as her pi young and sweet too wo and rather ratler than a passable actress As the te maiden just married she Is lovely Robert h hi the star of the play however a as the T r who after Sa a long on lapse of time tilde discovers that wan man fb the Lather father of his bead sisters child in ida his own lifelong chum Now Nov is a powerful artist and be makes Uncle vengeful reeling look pure to damage Baird seriously Moot Meet of us k f too tho that Billiard is a sinewy mail PiSit and impulsive so our j concern for the repentant remorseful j suicidal sinner heightened But the gentle Felicity unwittingly re relaxes lien her uncles dot into an open hand extended to her father in manly fore Mrs re Burnetts play is pro prolix lix Itu but in its 11 scenes evened of cross purpose fur for the two men ien and the girl it the pulse and opens tear dUcts dOets Hilliard is a product of Brooklyn which grows mere fliers amateur actors to the acre than any other city in the theland theland land He used t lY rt y and Bo Re moo meo evenings whan he be boxing i at an athletic sigh and came eme across the river daytimes to clerk it in Wan Wait street Very wen eU known is Job lo locally i cally anti and lot for as gs well aa as brawn though I doubt u ever his name was wason on OR any church roH In alt all I After he went on the professional j J stage he traveled a season In a corn com j pany which contained that other quick I andare actor Lloyd t 4 Bingham a and d it ws wita inevitable that they should come to Mows blows That was years ago Bob Boh ie g proud of his lith his histrionic and ambitious to increase it and ac sensitive to 1 anything that might len it ever so little One of the published accounts of Lloyds assault oil iid Acton bavi sf the dramatic critic sa that Lloyd had once punished Beh 2 for an insult to j i Mrs A d this thin in Ute tIle very week before Bob would come out in j That Man and I a play by the emi erni eminent nent Mrs Burnett iett all that the event portended in art and literature The scandalous infamous injurious lie must be nailed quick and nailed hard hardIt hardIt It was I 1 li Bingham Hit Hil Hilliard hard liard telegraphed from Buffalo and if ha be has haa the fact I f would be Pleased to pound it into him again 9 Ada Rehan is In the marvel maryol of the passing show The question whether a play or a placer Is or on is n successful seldom seems a salient point for this thin knIt feut in this pe peculiar culiar case it It Is teo to pertinent to be ig ignored ignored nored Augustan Daly went bankrupt only a few year yeSra a sEe o with Miss Rehn in classical A closure of his j I theatre was by recourse to s nan nanI n I melodramas and musical I farces people crowded a big bouee last week to see that same ame ac sc aci i tress tei in hi The Taming of the Shrew aad are hong k It week for The I School for She ilbe is still Mill a gift gifted ed stud and artist true enough realty really woman I am sure I or that after seeing being her furrowed face and white of or an her initiation of a girl gil time the same evening Miss I Rehan is n ter to sixty years rears than was a ro no more titan a child I when in 1957 she was ras the feminine leader in Baltimore and Al Albany Albany bany sto c companies Yet ret as ur BatIr inc ine Te le Her art cant blUe what nature has dune done to her beautiful thee it can had and it does set sether sether her agh bask f p quarter parter ef of a century or more in buoyancy and other f She played j I th tiu roles as w Jl yeR as I sh din dio long lOn long Iong age I had thought i that was the bluff I jn I d last seen her play i the boy in lon hit bit she is equalled by Behan As to the astonishing fact that New NewYork NewYork York which permitted Dalys theatre to tott tt half empty Ads comedy is low J filing a larger house upon her return to toI I them I nry y utter inability to ex ax explain plain o I an oi l m a ger to tU me the why and He Ire took TO n lr of It a sags sage in looking backward if I he were equally good at atI I looking forward he be would be a million millionaire alre aire which La I know are thronging to ee ils hindsight prophet a new r of playgoer ua up shy sice ghe he was In her prime The mothers read the tha ad ef her reappearance had and to th and daughters Ada lichen Rehan W ws B a great and glorious actress Oh lh i y herrs nothing like her r Yea Ton mim thIu last to see ce hoi hei I ned all ali go So whole families hurry 40 to the theatre where the fda B andt an worn ay beau at ed to h her she he is seal Inthe In Th the rekindled light x AT other days 5 Daly Dl w wits sis a genius for d de talent In actresses Ada Re Ito Rehan han ban Clam Clar ris Agnes Ethel Ethe and arny re results of his pro proc iIo in nI cooking arises actors from fori raw to well done nor 6 Belasco and Da failed to find a y vales valde for tvr his pur purposes purposes poses tn In and women as S Irin ItIn and Annie Yea mass who f Into nto hi his company but in younger and more plastic material he was in tu adept He did not net go gi lito stage man raan aS m t fiora th office bit from fron newspaper writing and profit was smaller iu i his eyes than pride As a business man inns he be was enemy anti and extravagant A Aa Aa a man h aa W aesthetic aa v I saV aa a marvelous developer of the t in actresses An of ot Dalys tuition is this week on the stage where be oper operated operated during the last do don n years of his hia life When his vogue with the public had fallen away from him his credit had beep been exhausted nd 4 his doom had to be guarded Against his credItors he took up London extravaganza as well as London melodramas in a desperate endeavor to his theatre H He Utilized Ms in th the Lane but found thai alt alther ll her versatility sig and dan f in fr th Oui ty s I i IYA he looked about for a waltzing warbler from The Geisha and decided on Vie Vir Virginia ginia Earl a bur none ne tp t nil Casino burlesques She r markedly while in his hI employ Now ow 9 eke is making good asp of what he t taught hor She is the central thing in Sergeant geant Kitty and distinctly artistic in does The play pay By t end and Ig It old in design awl execution exe s stion t tion and there is not much c of the familiar materials yet blase I Broadway consents to be pleased by 3 Miss Earl To my thinking sh ht is par particularly t nice when as perplexed arid and exasperated by her lova i she s stags sings and acts a booboo ballad At t that juncture her numerous changes of c costume have brought her a mili tars t hat s t but the thins thing i fe fei bravo brave or and ani she brooks r down or out In a song which i makes her sob Bob a refrain ft Whet What la is a a i girt girl tu do She feel like 1 chucking her under tit tim vain enin pat pitt patting t ting her on the bacR anti and hug bug bugging j Ring ging her nil in ii the wa j her of course But she rebounds from froJM her i without help throws eff o othe t the enveloping lesk and saucy and smiling In n a Hussar Buseer uniform of hab blue to load lad in a 8 ebe elto rus ens dad aad The theatrIcal laugh of Broadway this week weak is m en Edward E fl not as an on of course bUt asan as an author The Tho Light That Wo Womans Womans mans Byes km all bin except the title which is a line front from all l i old and some passages from frem Mf 4 You Like It which ere are Interpolated ina In Ina a seriocomic rehearsal The e s ar are those of Virginia Harned Sothern othern K the googoo gazer of the he piece and their light lies when It baams baita on her ter wooer before she really eele that way Mr Sothern to write a comedy that should be fanta itc and brilliant It has more faults Of crudity than I have the space apace iere to t describe and more than any man stage e experience ought to Ms b J guilty of ot I hope we forgot forgotten ten them when again wO see the merits of his Hamlet or view the R mee which he promises for next with Julia Juliet JulietA A pure play is a n rare thing thine to come eeme from Paris The Th of nelle nehl is that In its first NewYork audience only here and there a per person son knew what to expect A minority was disappointed that the comedy i turn out to be farce farcet A majority was astonished pleasurably ably when It developed a theme of conjugal loyalty instead of Infidelity Paris ant tant be altogether wicked lot for this piece lasted a year there m nCr r Ber Br BrUn Un and Vienna even de for it had long in those cities and now we shall see how well and lastingly New lork will like it Its humorous exhibition of affectionate domesticity d to be irresistible But dont inI it is faultless The subject is exhausted by bythe bythe the end of the second act and Is car citi carried ned ried limp through a third Another demerit for fr America is that the turns on the French law that a mae mad 1 1 by br under the age of I Without parental sanction ts is null and I void Therefore the young gentleman S j nd the working a girt girl who mate them themselves j I selves defiantly and begot beget a child are j regarded by his family and acquaint acquaintances I ances O as social outlaws We have no noI I statute and are inclined to say Fudge when the slightly irregular I I bride modest and tender h is treated as te asif if she ahe were shamelessly tough lough Nevertheless this domestic by Pi Pierre Wolff is so graphic in the authors anthers characterization and his idea era are so fully carried out by clever eleer ao a tore mrS well drilled that an am artistic tri triumph tn is reached That the success will willbe be popular also I wont foretell Who has the gift of theatrical prophecy The production has been 5 made loads by James K person personally personally ally the company going along him on his own tour during rehear rehearsals I am ama told that be he saw the Pa Parisian Parisian performance and has pimply amply tried to make a duplicate He has baa turned off a good job Do you know the unction of XV W H Thompson when Ite plays amiable oPt old men nten Here ha ho haIB hoIs IB Is the who whose s secret know to It everybody is hi that he surreptitiously visits claUs the domicile of his son and while pretending to hold bold them in taboo and Is i the fUnd fond fondest est at of foolish to their child The joke is that the grand grandmother grandmother mother too is a sly frequenter of the tho disgracefully home The lovely lovey sid fellow has one hateful trait H He cant bear contradiction or opposition His flue wife gets along with that fault by humoring it So for months they cross crimes each others purposes each afraid to be frank and not coming to an un understanding until they and the young couple have hare made us laugh and cry over their loving deceits Thompson if 1 starred with this play or at te least t featured But that other versatile veteran veran W J Ferguson son see is equally valuable as an eccentric tile chap who bickers with his crony In fun helps him out of trouble in earnest and incidentally a gras widow while seeming to be at odds with wish her Theatrical figures usually He lie But I chance to know that Thomp Thompson son and Ferguson have for many years commanded salaries of to a week according to the length of the engagement not so bad for formen formen men who have been frequently pitied MS as rare artists meagerly rewarded And now new I am dealing in personalities ties I may as welt well tell you that Thompson who has acted a hundred pious clergymen from bumble pastors pastor S to proud cardinals can an swear like a trooper and that Ferguson Fergeson whose best impersonations are drawing room fops is a Jersey farmer when not pro professionally prevented Thompson late lately lately ly renewed his youth by marrying pret pretty pretty ty Isabel Irving whom he had known when both were members of Augustin Dalys company Ferguson is not so o old as might be inferred from the ct that he was In the east cast of Our r can Cousin with Laura on the night that Lincoln was assaId 5 I He was then barely more moore than hU hell 4 I way through his teens |